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so amber, steph, rachel, matt and I just won 5 tickets to see the screening of the new sherlock holmes movie at trivia tonight , w00t!  The tickets are for tuesday@7:30 at atlantic station, but no one wanted them so I have 5 now.  Anyone down?  

p.s - I almost died on the drive home.  I was doing about 60 on the turn on Ponce right before that bridge.  I was like "oh shit" and started fish tailing towards oncoming traffic!! So i over corrected and started fish tailing the other way, oh shit! (luckily no one else was doing 60 so no one was next to me...).  So of course I overcorrected again and started fishtailing again towards more on coming tracking, shit shit!!  so I repeated my previous mistakes and car rammed into the curb on the last fishtail and I was able to regain control. *phew*  I lost my back right hub cab and the tire is scuffed, but no real damage to the car.  There was some a bit more vibration noticeable at highway speeds, but all in all I'm really fucking lucky.  If those first or third fishtails had gone on any longer I might've reverse T-boned a car and wouldn't be writing this post right now...

Anyways...tuesday's coming and I'm feeling fat and sassy!  So anyone down for a movie?

anyone else down?  new sherlock holmes screening tonight at 7:30.  I might make tacos tonight for anyone interested before hand.  Taco Tuesday's coming!  Did you bring a coat?

Was that the bat mobile in desert camo?  Oh snap!  Seems like someone got to Lucius.  I'm excited!  I haven't been let down by Nolan yet. 

edit:  I only know bat man from the original cartoon, and I don't remember bane playing a big role in it.  Mr.  Freeze is definitely my favorite villian from that show.  Hopefully there's a 4th in the future, because schwarzenegger for mr. freeze?  srsly?  i wouldn't mind seeing the kaiser, Kevin Spacey play mr. freeze. 

I think you put this in the wrong thread

Girl with teh (a?) Dragon Tattoo - I haven't read the books so I went in just knowing that Daniel Craig was in it and some emo chick was going to help him solve mysteries. Now that I write that I'm kind of disappointed it wasn't a gritty Scooby Doo reboot. I'm not really into mystery flicks to begin with so I can't really compare this to others of the genre, but I would think that during the story the viewer should be seeing clues that point to the whodunnit character. The big aha moment should come with a payoff that validates those clues and makes sense of the whole thing. A real good movie would have all those things make sense at a specific time. When the whodunnit is revealed I was like, huh OK whatever. It could have just as easily been any other character or some deus ex whodunnit character they just made up. The bad guy had a mildly interesting monologue as bad guys are wont to do, but the movie doesn't really take the topic it raises about our compulsion to not offend anywhere. And then the mystery is solved through a deus ex swedish lady out of a hat trick that could have just as easily been anyone else. That's two deus exes in the same movie, Dos deus exes. If they were having beers they would be dos deus exes drinking dos dos equis. The interactions between the Craig character and the emo girl were the most interesting parts of the movie. But overall I found the experience bland. That's probably why they felt the need to be explicit with the rapey scenes, because you wouldn't really feel anything during the movie otherwise. 2.5 out of 5 what was that shiny thing and where is it going oh now I get its.

Agreed, the movie definitely makes more sense having read the book, but I think they did a good job of capturing the essense of the book.  They had to leave out some details to make the story flow and without it being 3:30 hours long. [SPOILER ALERT]  If you plan on reading the book or watching the movie then stop here.

For example, the end of the movie seemed a little rushed to me.  They don't do a good job of explaining Anita and Harriet's situation, which is handled much better in the book (and moderately more believable).  There was also a whole side story about a Wennestrom mole at Millenium who was sabotaging the magazine, which makes the vindication of sticking it to the corrupt CEO even more satisfying in the book.  One thing they did pretty well is make the research a little more interesting.  It seemed more laborious in the book, which is how research is I guess, but they did a good job of capturing the details from the book without drawing it out.

I get your point though Drew.  There wasn't a montage scene of flashbacks where it's like "Oh yeah, if I had picked up on those clues I would've solved the mystery!"  But it's like that in the book too.  The only thing that's a little different is that when Martin confronts Mikael in the book, he basically tells Mikael to leave the island or MIllenium might be in trouble (since Vanger falls ill and Martin is the representing partner for the magazine).  Martin uses the family's distaste of Mikael's presense as a pretext for the conversation in the book, so it's not so obvious at the time, but that's definitely one of those "oh yeah" scenes.  I think the "oh yeah" montage would've been super cliche, but I can see your need to connect the villain with context demonstrated in the movie.

Casting was done fairly well.  Rooney Mara played a perfect Lisbeth.  I was opposed to the idea of Daniel Craig because of his 007 fame, but they do a good job of toning him down and show some wrinkles from aging, so it worked.  In my mind Wennestrom seemed more like Bernie Madoff, rather than the younger pretty boy they chose in the movie.  He had white hair, but smooth skin. Maybe my mind just falls into standard stereotypes and makes the villains hideous with boils and such. :)

Anyhow, I give it a 3.5/5 shit shit the killer's standing right next to you and you know it, just stab him with the knife!!

Guilty pleasure, anyone?